Video: Skewing objects

Skewing, also called shearing, helps give an object a sense of perspective, or dimensionality, or it can draw attention to an object by making it look just odd. I can grab both of these objects on my page, and skew them by going to the control panel, and changing the Skew value. I'll change it to 30%, and it skews it, so that the top goes to the right, and the bottom goes to the left. That looks kind of interesting I suppose, but if I really want a lot of power skewing, then I'm going to undo that, and instead, use the Shear tool. It's underneath the Free Transform tool. There it is: the Shear tool.

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Skewing objects

Skewing, also called shearing, helps give an object a sense of perspective, ordimensionality, or it can draw attention to an object by making it look just odd.I can grab both of these objects on my page, and skew them by going to thecontrol panel, and changing the Skew value.I'll change it to 30%, and it skews it, so that the top goes to the right, and thebottom goes to the left.That looks kind of interesting I suppose, but if I really want a lot of powerskewing, then I'm going to undo that, and instead, use the Shear tool. It'sunderneath the Free Transform tool. There it is: the Shear tool.

First I'm going to go to the reference point in the control panel to make sureInDesign knows which part of this group of objects will be anchored.In this case, it's going to anchor around the center point.Then I'll just start dragging.I'm just going to click and drag, just a little bit.You can see, as I drag, the object kind of almost looks like it is rotating inthree-dimensional space.Kind of an interesting effect. I'll click and drag one more time, and you cansee that you can really get an interesting sense of warping.Unfortunately, there's no way to do true perspective in InDesign.

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